Before Cillian Murphy and Christopher Nolan helped define the summer box office with Oppenheimer, the two collaborated on many films before. Perhaps their best-known previous collaboration came in Batman Begins, where Murphy played Dr. Jonathan Crane, the Scarecrow. Both Batman and Scarecrow are avatars of fear, but when gassed with his own toxin in Batman Begins, what was it that Crane feared most?For a time in the mid-20th Century, Batman was cast as the Bright Knight, both in the comics and in the 1966 television series Batman. Adam West played the Caped Crusader not as a symbol of fear, vengeance or the night, but as a costumed hero who could face down equally costumed villains. Christopher Nolan’s take on the Gotham mythos was one steeped in grounded reality, at least as much as this story can be. Crane was introduced as a psychologist in the pocket of the Falcone organized crime family. However, his true master was the one pulling the strings throughout the film. The League of Shadows, led by Ra’s al Ghul, wanted to destroy Gotham City as it had other powerful metropolises throughout history. Jonathan Crane’s fear toxin was the way they were going to do that. By awakening the greatest fears of its citizens, the people of Gotham would tear the city down without the members of the League of Shadows lifting a finger. However, when Batman dosed Scarecrow with the fear toxin, Jonathan Crane’s greatest fear isn’t as obvious as it might seem.Batman got his first taste of the fear toxin long before he met the Scarecrow while training in the mountaintop temple somewhere near Bhutan. The source was a flower with hallucinogenic properties. The point of this lesson was for Bruce Wayne to learn to suppress his fear and do the job he was trained for: killing. Yet, Batman (usually) doesn’t kill people intentionally. The next time he was hit with the toxin came when he confronted Crane.RELATED: The Riddler Wouldn’t Have Worked in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy – Here’s Why
Before Cillian Murphy and Christopher Nolan helped define the summer box office with Oppenheimer, the two collaborated on many films before. Perhaps their best-known previous collaboration came in Batman Begins, where Murphy played Dr. Jonathan Crane, the Scarecrow. Both Batman and Scarecrow are avatars of fear, but when gassed with his own toxin in Batman Begins, what was it that Crane feared most?
For a time in the mid-20th Century, Batman was cast as the Bright Knight, both in the comics and in the 1966 television series Batman. Adam West played the Caped Crusader not as a symbol of fear, vengeance or the night, but as a costumed hero who could face down equally costumed villains. Christopher Nolan’s take on the Gotham mythos was one steeped in grounded reality, at least as much as this story can be. Crane was introduced as a psychologist in the pocket of the Falcone organized crime family. However, his true master was the one pulling the strings throughout the film. The League of Shadows, led by Ra’s al Ghul, wanted to destroy Gotham City as it had other powerful metropolises throughout history. Jonathan Crane’s fear toxin was the way they were going to do that. By awakening the greatest fears of its citizens, the people of Gotham would tear the city down without the members of the League of Shadows lifting a finger. However, when Batman dosed Scarecrow with the fear toxin, Jonathan Crane’s greatest fear isn’t as obvious as it might seem.
Batman got his first taste of the fear toxin long before he met the Scarecrow while training in the mountaintop temple somewhere near Bhutan. The source was a flower with hallucinogenic properties. The point of this lesson was for Bruce Wayne to learn to suppress his fear and do the job he was trained for: killing. Yet, Batman (usually) doesn’t kill people intentionally. The next time he was hit with the toxin came when he confronted Crane.
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